Questions tagged [stocks]

This tag is to be used for any questions related to Stocks. Ideally they should be accompanied by a country tag if relevant. It is discouraged to ask question about a specific stock. However an example can be used to illustrate a point.

I held several Vanguard equity ETFs (VFIAX, etc.) I wanted to diversify into bonds (as discussed in "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"), so I sold some of them and bought BLV.
As stocks have declined, ...

I am working on a research project on acquisitions/mergers. I have been reading the details of Amazons acquisition of Whole Foods. In the articles that I'm reading, I see that Whole Foods shareholders ...

Let’s say I have 100 shares of XYZ, and over the past 9 months the share price has increased 20%. I don’t want to sell until the 12 month mark so I can benefit from a long term capital gains rate, but ...

In a bid vs ask if it has a large spread does this indicate that it is harder to get what you paid for it back in return or say the market price? Or can you always get the market sale if the price is ...

You'd think that the footage of a Tesla Roadster with the Earth in the background going viral would be an unprecedented advertisement and that it could possibly entice people to order Tesla cars "in ...

Assuming this is not a new IPO, and no lock-ups, how far in advance do insiders have to declare selling their stock?
From what I read online, they certainly can not immediately sell their stock the ...

First time post question on this platform, let me know if I shall move to the quantitative finance or this is the right place afterall.
I am reading Analog Devices 10-K and could not really wrap my ...

I was wondering why LABU, which is a 3x times leveraged biotechnological ETF, went down in July 2015.
I understand that it tries to track SPSIBI (Biotech Index) whose top ten holdings are: ICPT, SRPT, ...

The NYSE has just shy of ten-thousand rules in their rule book. That ain't exactly light reading material either.
If a retail investor is an active trader on NYSE, how well should they have studied ...

Is it possible to achieve a high degree of diversification with relatively little capital but still be able to determine exactly in which companies one invests and in which one not? So is there a way ...

Imagine a stock went down more than 10% intraday, triggering the short circuit breaker, aka Alternative uptick rule. Short selling is only possible higher than the best bid.
But what happens exactly? ...

Stocks with smaller market capitalisation sometimes have the potential for greater price growth. But when trying to invest the same amount of money as you would do with a mainstream share, your act of ...

I made a few thousands dollars through a couple of freelancing projects (around $20k - $30k), i’m 32 with almost no responsibilities, have a full time job making decent money, and I live in Egypt with ...

It seems like stock prices rise when dividends increase unexpectedly [possible citation needed].
This doesn't seem intuitive to me, because if you think of stock as a claim of ownership on a company, ...

So, I am using an API from Equity Market Data to pull in stock exchanges.
They do not have a data dictionary. I am trying to understand the meaning behind the column names.
Not all the column names ...